Last week I finally got the stitches removed from my poor foot. While I was waiting to heal, that ugly black boot rubbed a hole in the bottom of my foot…at that point the boot was retired to the closet for good. Enough! I’m doing well, still a bit of a limp but coming around, I’d say. I go back to the podiatrist again next week to pick up my orthotics and that should be that.
Still doing the “dog” thing. Took Mimi in today for her yearly vaccinations and checkup. Today was the first time Mimi has made a trip while sitting in the doggie basket you see in the picture below of Pepper, my mom’s Chihuahua. She panicked at first and just wanted “OUT!!!”. Finally got her calmed down and made my position known–that she was to stay in the doggie booster seat ALL the way. She then quieted down and made it the entire 30 minute ride to the vet. Once her appointment was over I took her to Sonic for a puppy-reward cheeseburger. Once she got to eat her cheeseburger she conked out for a short nap in her booster seat; she decided it wasn’t as bad as she’d thought. Tonight she had a love fest with me on the couch. She licked me until my skin just about started peeling off. I think she was grateful for the special attention she got today on her dreaded trip to the vet; it definitely wasn’t a negative experience. Pepper goes back Tuesday for his post-heartworm treatment checkup, then Bandit goes before the end of the month for his annual check. I think we have 4 in March, 1 in April, 1 in July and the last in August. I need to take up a different hobby!
Pepper on the way to his heartworm treatments
Speaking of hobbies, I did get all 11 of the doggie blankets completed, 9 sold and 2 gifted. Hope to get started on the next batch (this time appliqued owls instead of appliqued puppies) tomorrow.
First 6 of the appliqued puppy blankets
Ronnie is going to visit family overnight so I’ll be on my own to do laundry and sew and pamper canine babies during both. I had another laptop brought in tonight which I’m working on right now; otherwise I’m caught up on the computers for a bit. This is the first Windows 8 machine I’ve had in to fix so it’s a whole new ball of wax, interesting figuring out how to fix the issues without losing her information but it was full of crap-ware and no antivirus running for months before it got here. No telling what was on it before I decided to do a refresh. Every time I thought I had it all something else would pop up. Too many fires to put out; it was time for the big guns, so I’m downloading Windows Updates right now. I may be about done for the night though. This will take longer than I care to stay up. I’ve been up since 5 AM and it’s after 2 AM again; time to call “Uncle!” perhaps! I’ll sit here a bit longer I think but it won’t get finished tonight; not enough minutes and updates are a lot of “hurry up and wait, reboot, repeat”. Boring!!!!!!!! I’m just about ready to give in and give up for the night. After 21 hours my patience is thin.
On another note, I now have 2 systems dual-booting Windows 10, one also has Windows 8.1 and the other has Windows 7. Interesting system and I’m liking Windows 10, but like Vista before it, some software I’m used to running has yet to be optimized to run on it so I’m doing a bit of troubleshooting in order to use it like I need it to run. It’s been a fun, if frustrating at times, experience so far. One of the good things about doing the Windows 10 preview is that this time we will get to keep it with whatever upgrades come next (and for free!!) instead of having to completely reload the entire system like we had to do with the Windows 7 preview. I don’t feel so bad about loading it knowing that it’s not all for nothing in a few months. Makes a big difference even if it’s only semantics. LOL
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